Current Activities

The activity of the FGDC Subcommittee partners has recently been focused on classifying the natural vegetation types are all levels of the hierarchy. In February 2016 USNVC 2.0 will be launched including type descriptions for the Conterminous U.S. The focus will then shift to finalizing types down to the group level for Alaska, and Hawai’i and to implementing the formal peer review process to accommodate proposed revisions. In 2014 a pilot project was conducted to test and formalize the peer review process. That project resulted in the first article for the Proceedings of the USNVC - Palmquist, K. A., R. K. Peet, and S. C. Carr. Xeric Longleaf Pine Vegetation of the Atlantic and East Gulf Coast Coastal Plain: an Evaluation and Revision of Associations within the U.S. National Vegetation Classification. A website and database are currently being designed to make the Proceedings available through the Ecological Society of America’s website.